William a



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. MAURAN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

CARPET-LINING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,012, dated July 11,1882,

Application filed October 1, 1881. Renewed J one 1, 1882.

' tail flag, and to one or both sides of the web so woven are pastedstrips of paper or other suitable material to strengthen thelooselywoven web and properly prevent the separation of the leaf fillingat the ends of the cut pieces of the web.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a piece of my improved carpet-lining. Fig. 2represents alongitudinal section of the web enlarged.

In the drawings, A represents a piece of my improved carpet-lining; B BB, the separate leaves of cat-tail flag employed for the filling of theweb; 0 O G, the longitudinal warpthreads; D D D, strips of paper orcloth pasted upon the flag-leaves of the filling longitudinall y of theweb, upon one or both sides, as desired. The strips D D, pasted to thesurface of the flag leaves, serve to strengthen the loosely-wovenfabric, and to prevent the flag leaves at the extreme ends of a piece ofthe web from becoming loosened from the warp.

In the manufacture of my improved carpet- (Model.)

lining I do not beat up the weft, butemploya specially-constructedloom,whereby the leaves of flag are held flat between the warp-threads andin-a favorable position for the pasting of the strengthening andretaining strips to the flat sides of the leaves in the web. The fabricis thus,owing to therelative width of the flagleaves, rapidly woven, andis of the proper thickness for the purpose of a carpet lining when itleaves the loom, and the pasted strips have a firm hold upon the flatsides of the leaves, which could not be secured in a fabric beaten up bythe lathe of a loom.

1am aware that strengthening-strips have been employed for similarfabrics held together by stitching, the strips being sewed to the fabno.

I am also aware that similar strips have been pasted to a felted fabricand to a carpetlining formed of paper sheets; but

I claim as my invention- A carpet-lining web loosely woven with a weftof the leaves of the cat-tail flag laid flat between the warp-threads,and having longitudinal strengthening-strips pasted to the flat sides ofthe weft, substantially as described.

WILLIAM A. MAURAN.

Witnesses:

SOGRATES SoHoLFrnLn, IRA. 0. SEAMANS.

